Albert Yu, Pankaj K. Agarwal, and Jun Yang. "Top-k preferences in high dimensions." In Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Data Engineering, Chicago, Illinois, USA, March 2014. Results in this paper are subsumed by those in the TKDE 2016 paper by the same authors.

Botong Huang, Shivnath Babu, and Jun Yang. "Cumulon: optimizing statistical data analysis in the cloud." In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, New York City, New York, USA, June 2013. [paper and slides]

Albert Yu, Pankaj K. Agarwal, and Jun Yang. "Subscriber assignment for wide-area content-based publish/subscribe." In Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Data Engineering, pages 267-278, Hannover, Germany, April 2011. Results in this paper are subsumed by those in the TKDE 2012 paper by the same authors. [paper and report]

Sarah Cohen, Chengkai Li, Jun Yang, and Cong Yu. "Computational journalism: a call to arms to database researchers." In Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, Asilomar, California, USA, January 2011. Outrageous ideas and vision track. Third-place winner of the Best Outrageous Ideas
and Vision Track Paper Competition sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium. [paper and slides]

Badrish Chandramouli and Jun Yang. "End-to-end support for joins in large-scale publish/subscribe systems." In Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, pages 434-450, Auckland, New Zealand, August 2008. Infrastructure track. [paper]

Adam Silberstein and Jun Yang. "Many-to-many aggregation for sensor networks." In Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Data Engineering, pages 986-995, Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007. Acceptance rate: 122 out of 659. [paper and report]

Badrish Chandramouli, Christopher Bond, Shivnath Babu, and Jun Yang. "On suspending and resuming dataflows." In Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Data Engineering, pages 1289-1291, Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007. Poster track. Acceptance rate: 60(+122) out of 659. Results in this paper are subsumed
by those in the SIGMOD 2007 paper by the same authors.

Pankaj K. Agarwal, Junyi Xie, Jun Yang, and Hai Yu. "Scalable continuous query processing by tracking hotspots." In Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, pages 31-42, Seoul, Korea, September 2006. Core database track. Acceptance rate: 46 out of 334. Results in this paper are subsumed
by those in the 2009 TODS paper by the same authors. [paper and report]

Adam Silberstein, Rebecca Braynard, and Jun Yang. "Energy-efficient continuous isoline queries in sensor networks." In Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Data Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 2006. Poster track. Results in this paper are subsumed by those in the SIGMOD 2006 paper
by the same authors. [paper]

Hao He and Jun Yang. "Multiresolution indexing of XML for frequent queries." In Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Data Engineering, pages 683-694, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, April 2004. Acceptance rate: 63 out of 441. [paper and report]

Jun Yang and Jennifer Widom. "Incremental computation and maintenance of temporal aggregates." In Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Data Engineering, pages 51-60, Heidelberg, Germany, April 2001. Acceptance rate: 14 percent. Results in this paper are subsumed by those in the 2003
VLDB Journal paper by the same authors

Jun Yang, Huacheng C. Ying, and Jennifer Widom. "TIP: a temporal extension to informix." In Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Konstanz, Germany, March 2000. Demonstration track. An improved version was shown in SIGMOD 2000.

Hector Garcia-Molina, Wilburt Juan Labio, and Jun Yang. "Expiring data in a warehouse." In Proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, pages 500-511, New York City, New York, USA, August 1998. Acceptance rate: 16 percent.

Co-investigator. Doctoral Program in Management and Analysis of Large Data Acquired from Sensors. Department of Education GAANN Program. May 2007. With Pankaj K. Agarwal and others.

Co-investigator. Integration of IBM Management Software with Campus Blade Clusters in Support of Duke
Academic Infrastructure. IBM Shared University Research (SUR) Program. June 2006. With Richard Lucic and others.

Co-investigator. COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DDDAS-TMRP: Dynamic Sensor Networks---Enabling the Measurement,
Modeling, and Prediction of Biophysical Change in a Landscape. NSF CNS DDDAS Program. January 2006 - December 2011. With James S. Clark and others.

Co-investigator. Supplemental Award for COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DDDAS-TMRP: Dynamic Sensor Networks---Enabling
the Measurement, Modeling, and Prediction of Biophysical Change in a Landscape. NSF REU Program. July 2006. With James S. Clark and others.

Honors and Awards

Excellent Demonstration Award at
the 2014 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2014), September 2014.

David and Janet Vaughan Brooks Teaching Award, Trinity
College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University, April 2013.

Third-place winner of the Best Outrageous Ideas and
Vision Track Paper Competition at the 2011 Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2011),
sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium, January 2011.

"Computational Journalism and Big Data," presentation at the Workshop on Journalism
and Public Policy for Nanjing Media Professionals, Media Fellows Program, Sanford
School of Public Policy, Duke University, December 2014.

"A Sampling-Based Approach to Information Recovery," presentation at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management
Sciences (INFORMS 2008), October 2008.

"Thoughts on Data Sharing: A Database Researcher's Perspective," presentation at the Primate Life History Working Group Meeting, NESCent (National
Evolutionary Synthesis Center), August 2007.

"Query Suspend and Resume," presentation at the 2007 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2007), June 2007.

"Data-Driven Processing in Sensor Networks," seminars at University of Pennsylvania, University of Waterloo, and New England Database
Society, April 2007 - October 2007.

"Scalable Continuous Query Processing and Result Dissemination," seminars at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, University of Maryland at College Park,
University of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Mellon University Joint Database Seminar, Brown
University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and University of California
at Berkeley, February 2006 - December 2006.

"Continuous Query Processing over Networked Data," presentation at IBM Research Triangle Park University Day, October 2006.

Panel discussion at SIGMOD '06 Life after Graduation Symposium, June 2006.

"Scalable Continuous Query Processing and Result Dissemination," talk at the 2006 Southeast Workshop on Data and Information Management (SEWDIM 2006), March 2006.

"Querying Networked Data," presentation at IBM Research Triangle Park University Day, October 2005.

"An Overview of Database Research at Duke," presentation at inDuke Meeting, Duke University, May 2005.

"Incremental Computation and Maintenance of Temporal Aggregates," presentation at the 2001 International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2001).

"Query Processing in Kidar," guest lecture for a course on database system
implementation at Stanford University, Stanford,
California, November 2000.

"Performance Issues in Incremental Warehouse Maintenance," presentation at the 2000 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2000).

"TIP: A Temporal Extension to Informix," system demonstration at the 2000 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2000).

"Temporal Data Warehousing," colloquia at
Brown University, Cornell University, Duke University, Harvard
University, Santa Clara University, State University of New York at
Stony Brook, University of California at Santa Barbara, University of
California at Santa Cruz, University of Southern California, Yale
University, and IBM Almaden Research Center, February 2000 - May 2000.

"TIP: A Temporal Extension to Informix," presentation and system demonstration at
Stanford Database Workshop, Stanford, California, March 2000.

"TIP: A Temporal Extension to Informix," presentation and system demonstration at
Informix Corporation, Oakland, California, March 2000.

Reviewers for conferences:
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD),
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB),
International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE),
ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS),
International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW),
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM),
International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WEBDB),
ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC),
International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS),
European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA),
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS),
International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MOBISYS),
USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX),
ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA).